Personification:
Personification is a figure of speech in which lifeless
objects or ideas are given human qualities or abilities. In other words,
whenever sensations, emotions, desires, physical gestures and speech are stated
in context of non-living things, personification is said to have taken place.
By this technique, lifeless things are given life. The concept of
personification is commonly used in poetry, where things are often described as
having feelings. It is also widely used in fiction and children’s literature, though
fiction is not likely to stay focused on the personified object for long.
Example of Personification:
“And Joy, whose hand is ever at his lips
Bidding adieu;”
--Keats
Here “Joy” has been imagined as a living person.